These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this Terror Tales series of eBooks.

In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Terror Tales magazine was one of the most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a collection of stories from the pages of Terror Tales magazine, all written by Arthur J. Burks, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:

Terror Tales — An Introduction

by Will Murray

Slaves of the Blood-Wolves — December 1935 issue of Terror Tales

by Arthur J. Burks

Savage northwoods patients thirsted to drink the blood of Dr. Clayton and his nurse, Mary, who had come to save them from a frightful madness. But they wanted the red fluid — quickly — when they heard the loup garous closing in...

Sixteen Steps to Doom — December 1935 issue of Terror Tales

by Arthur J. Burks writing as Richard H. Shaw

A lovely siren from the nether-world lured Martha’s husband into dark eternity.

Death’s Masterpiece — December 1935 issue of Terror Tales

by Arthur J. Burks writing as Spencer Whitney

The Black Gods, so legend goes, frown darkly on too much skill in mortal man.

Her Lover — the Executioner — February 1936 issue of Terror Tales

by Arthur J. Burks

The man she was to marry took human lives — for the thrill of it!

Call Me Monster — March 1936 issue of Terror Tales

by Arthur J. Burks

Everyone liked Mike O’Herne — and a blue-eyed colleen loved him. But that was before black terror came to Desbrosses Street — and Mike’s name became a term of scarlet shame to trembling maidens.

A Bride for Death — April 1936 issue of Terror Tales

by Arthur J. Burks

No brain not born in the nethermost pit of darkness could have conceived the sacrifice demanded of beautiful Liu Mei, trapped in a Chinatown labyrinth by lust-mad coolies who laughed as they tortured the men who came to rescue her.

They Call Me Killer — June 1936 issue of Terror Tales

by Arthur J. Burks

What if you should awaken, some gray morning, and find, as Grover Kimpton did, that what you thought was only an unspeakable, horrible, murderous nightmare, is actually grisly fact?

Mates for Madmen — June 1936 issue of Terror Tales

by Arthur J. Burks writing as Spencer Whitney

Through that terror-ridden forest, where lurked the men with youthful faces — and the bodies of ancients — Frank Deeping frantically sought his lost sweetheart. And he knew that in the hearts of the forest’s denizens festered the black lust of hell-spawned demons!

Canyon of Missing Brides — Nov-Dec 1937 issue of Terror Tales

by Arthur J. Burks

Locke Brette found that the girls who answered that weird, compelling night-call had become bleeding, babbling idiots. That’s why Locke reveled in a murder-frenzy that he himself could not control, when he saw the girl he loved face such a fate!

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